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set applicable exclusively to the latter ; and to have given the 

 words good and bad, black and white, great and small, handsome 

 and ugly, such modifications as are practically competent to in- 

 dicate the general nature of the objects referred to, whether pro- 

 vided with, or destitute of, the vital principle. And not only so, 

 but, by the figurative use of these forms, to exalt inanimate 

 masses into the class of living beings, or to strip the latter of its 

 properties of life — a principle of much imjDortance to their public 

 speakers. 



This distinction is shown in the following examples, in which 

 it will be observed that the inflection izzi generally denotes the 

 personal, and aw, wn, or luud^ the impersonal forms. 



It is not, however, in all cases, by mere modifications of the 

 adjective that these distinctions are expressed. Words totally 

 dificrent in sound, and evidently derived from radically different 

 roots, are, in some few instances, employed ; as in the following 

 examples : — 



It may be remarked of these forms, that, although the imper- 

 sonal will, in some instances, take the personal inflections, the 



